Concerning Abundance, AGI, and our Collective Future.

A future of abundance (courtesy of the progress in AI and quantum computing) seems to me, to be inevitable. Whether or not this abundance is uniformly distributed, though, is an entirely different conversation. & I suspect the earlier we start thinking about and around this, the better.

Democracy thrives in an up-and-to-the-right socio-economic system. & techno-optimism, obviously— or within reasonable variance— is the only good solution to most third-world problems.

We, individually, will get intelligence too cheap to meter. But much more interesting and worthy of execution, directionally, is what becomes possible with an agi-multiplier to create and get world-class healthcare and education at the push of a button. & all this at almost zero cost.

Attempting distributed universal basic compute in Africa, seems to me to be a good contrarian bet to make. With luck made available & direction of execution suggestible by context-soaked quantum agi-systems. Success can then be fought for through sheer ability and willpower.

One could theorize then, on such a bet, that turtles who are learning machines would one day run neck-to-neck with hares. And that that, perhaps, will be the world as it should be. Most other assertions— as I see it— are a sorry kind of freedom.